![]() It uses latching relays so it draws very little power except when it tunes but it seldom needs to actually tune because it can return immediately to a previous setting in its memory for that frequency. It runs on an internal set of AA flashlight batteries. I can't easily use the manual tuner here because I don't have the ladder line coming into the shack like I did in Mont Vernon so I went back to the LDG and it's working well well. I used that successfully for several years and put the LDG away when it came back repaired. LDG happily repaired it under warranty but while it was away, I asked my dad in New Zealand to find and mail me my old MFJ-941D manual tuner. That worked well for a while until it overheated and burned a coil while operating on 20m CW. It worked for a few hours and then refused to tune. Then when I wanted to get on the air at the Mont Vernon QTH several years later, the SG-239 was pressed into service. When I was on the air briefly in 2003 I purchased a SGC SG-239 which worked okay but I didn't have a good antenna. Until recently I haven't had much luck with automatic tuners. ![]() I've had considerable success working DX on both phone and CW. It's working nicely on all bands 80 to 10m (well almost, see below). Coax then goes out the same window, down the side of the house and into the basement. My solution is to bring the feedline in through a window into the attic where I have a balun and automatic antenna tuner. ![]() I have a MFJ window feedthrough but that doesn't work with the small sliding windows in the basement. My "shack" is in the basement which presented a bit of a problem of how to get the ladder line in. It's a classic doublet which is a half wavelength long on 80 meters fed in the center with ladder line. I've put up the same multiband doublet I had at Mont Vernon. ![]() Of course the first ham project here has been to get an HF antenna up. We're back in the old QTH of Wilton, New Hampshire. ![]()
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